"There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back."

-- James Russell Lowell

#Men Quotes #Victory Quotes #Able Quotes

“You went to all that trouble just for my body?" I said, amazed and so grateful. Reyn looked up, irritation on his face. "Yeah. We were going to have you stuffed, as an example to future students." I grinned, "You could put me on wheels, move me from room to room.”
“Your style is formed by what you can't do.”
“And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.”
“Well, thatâ€™s interesting,â€ I said. â€œWhatâ€™s interesting?â€ Jack called from the other room. â€œSomething is interesting?â€ Lend shouted. â€œNo! Nothing!”
“One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.”

Source : Joseph Story (1842). “A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States”, p.264
“It's very rare in our lives that we're like "Ooh, I'm going to really screw this family up." You just don't. You work from a place of need, like I want to finish this movie or I want to feel loved at that moment or I need empathy right now. And then, you do things that are questionable.”
“I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.”
“It gets on my nerves when women take too much time on makeup. You would think after a lifetime they would have the process down to less than 45 minutes!”

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